On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Maxim Maletsky wrote:

> Derick Rethans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... :
> 
> > It's giving coders more work, work which looks like documenting; and we 
> > all know that coders dont like to document. And being lazy has nothing 
> > to do with it, it's just all practical. Dont forget that most coders 
> > work on PHP because they _need_ the function they are working on in 
> > their jobs.
> > 
> 
> that's the price of usability. Open Source always suffered from that,
> and forever will if the usability will not be considered as one of the
> main benefits, especially for a programming language as PHP.

We didn't suffer from this at all, and why is PHP not usable enough? We 
have tenth of thousand users.

> I agree on 110% that it will be harder to maintain the code. I myself
> will never use any non-english errors in my PHP setups and will always
> spend precious minutes grepping for error code. But, this will benefit
> the whole project. It is not a stupid idea - it is "usability".

Then why care if you don't need it? Why do more work because only others 
want/need it? IMO that's just plain dumb.

Derick


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